Film Review: The Lighthouse (2019)
byDirector Robert Eggers’ second film is a dreary, deranged dream – strange and surreal and inscrutable. In The Lighthouse, Eggers, with a screenplay he co-wrote…
The Witch
Film Review: Midsommar (2019)
byWriter-director Ari Aster is already proving himself to be one of the sharpest voices in contemporary horror. After his impressive directorial debut Hereditary last…
Film Review: The Third Wife (2018)
byThe title of Ash Mayfair’s debut film, The Third Wife , evokes the dehumanising, commodified nature of life for its eponymous character. Her name…
Film Review: Hereditary (2018)
byWith promises to be the year’s, if not the decade’s, scariest film, Hereditary wasn’t the best film for a small cinema in Western Australia…
Film Review: Get Out (2017)
byName a great director and you’re pretty much guaranteed that they’ve made a horror movie. Either the genre offered them their start, or it…
Film Review: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
byAndré Øvredal knows how to make a genre film better than nearly anyone else. 2010 saw the beginnings of his international reputation with Trolljegren/Troll…
Film Review: Morgan (2016)
byThe best sci-fis are about questions. Questioning the nature of reality and of the self. Asking what it is to be human, what consciousness…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: The Witch (2015)
byThere is a (excuse the pun) bewitching quality about The Witch, directed and written by Robert Eggers, that renders this horror film both deeply unsettling…